The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.
The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

The Shallotte Police Department investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week. All information is taken directly from police incident and investigation reports.

•Devin Bruce Roberts, 22, of 2137 Trout Avenue, Supply, was arrested for failure to appear for possession of marijuana. Roberts was arrested while being investigated for misdemeanor larceny at Walmart when an active warrant for failure to appear was discovered. A citation was issued for the larceny, and Roberts was arrested.

The Ocean Isle Beach Police Department and the Ocean Isle Beach Municipal Fire Department are hosting Operation Medicine Drop from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, March 20. The drop will take place at 111 Causeway Drive in Ocean Isle Beach, on the corner of Caseway Drive and Rick Street.

Everyone is invited to drop off expired or unused prescription and over-the-counter medications, which will be properly disposed.

Sunset Beach police investigated the following incidents reported in the past week:

•On March 7, a resident of Old Oak Lane reported a bank check had been uttered and forged. The woman said a man had come to her home to give her a price for fixing a hot tub. She wrote him a check for $129 for parts. When the check was cashed at First Federal in South Carolina, the amount of the check had been changed to $429.

•A Garmin GPS was reported stolen March 3 from an unlocked vehicle on Medcalf Drive.

The Shallotte Police Department investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week. All information is taken directly from police incident and arrest reports.

•Anthony Maurice Riggins, 32, of 686 Sunset Lakes Blvd., Sunset Beach, was arrested in the DMV parking lot for assault on a female. He was held at the Brunswick County Detention Center on a $1,000 bond.

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.
The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.